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is an effect of the attempted separation of core concepts of modernity (humans / nonhumans, nature / culture), separations which in fact mark an amplification of their contacts.

This modification of scale was achieved not as they thought by the separation of humans and nonhumansbut, on the contrary, by the amplification of their contacts' (Latour 1993:41).

is pronounced to the extent that it seems to be hidden. The less moderns think they are blended, the more they blend, the more science is absolutely pure, the more it is intimately bound up with the fabric of society.

The scope of the mobilization is directly proportional to the impossibility of directly conceptualizing its relations with the social order. The less the moderns think they are blended, the more they blend. The more science is absolutely pure, the more it is intimately bound up with the fabric of society.' (Latour 1993:43).

is ubiquitous among moderns. The premoderns, by dwelling on hybrids, nip them in the bud, whereas the moderns, by ignoring them, allow them to proliferate.

While the moderns insure themselves by not thinking at all about the consequences of their innovations for the (Latour 1993:')

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